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单词 red robin
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red robinn.

Brit. /ˌrɛd ˈrɒbɪn/, U.S. /ˈˌrɛd ˈˌrɑbən/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., robin n.1
Etymology: < red adj. + robin n.1 With senses 3a, 3b compare earlier robin redbreast n.
1.
a. Any of various plants having reddish parts; esp. red campion, Silene dioica, and (U.S.) †Indian paintbrush, Castilleja coccinea (obsolete rare).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caryophyllaceae (chickweeds and allies) > [noun] > campion and ragged robin
cow-rattle14..
campion1576
behen1578
crowsoap1578
white campion1578
catchfly1597
feather-top wild campion1597
frothy poppy1597
lime-wort1597
nonsuch1597
sea campion1597
spattling poppy (also campion)1597
Greek rose1601
lychnis1601
knap-bottle1640
moss pink1641
Lobel's catchfly1664
red robin1678
moss campion1690
red campion1728
round robin1741
Silene1751
Nottingham catchfly1762
silenal1836
Robin Hood1844
thunder-flower1853
gunpowder weed1860
sea-catchfly1864
robin redbreast1880
poppy1886
thunderbolt1886
rattleweed1893
cancer1896
bladder-campion-
1678 E. R. Experienced Farrier ii. 66 Shepherds pouch, Red Robin, the seeds of Sorrel or Roots.
1797 R. Polwhele Hist. Devonshire I. ii. 5 The general mildness of our winters is seen in our daily rides, in which we may constantly see in blow, the daisy, the white and red robin, the white and blue periwinkle, [etc.].
1826 W. Darlington Florula Cestrica 72 E[uchroma] coccinea... Painted Cup. Red Robin.
1858 National Mag. 3 315/1 The campions are..all robins. The rose or red campion is the red robin, the white is the white robin.
1891 ‘Q’ Noughts & Crosses 88 My feet trod on bluebells and red-robins.
1994 Harrowsmith June 53/2 I found Herb Robert..blanketing the steep bank of a ravine on our Cape Breton farm. Also known as Red Robin, it is annual but self-sows so readily that..it can be regarded as a perennial.
b. A creeping grass, esp. a form of creeping bent (genus Agrostis). Obsolete.
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1789 Ann. Agric. 11 288 The General knew an old wet meadow that was..laid down for grass, nothing but Red Robin came, and it continues covered with that, and nothing else, to this day.
1823 W. Cobbett Let. 14 Apr. in Trans. Soc. Arts 41 104 Agrostis Canina; or, Brown Bent Grass... The Fiorin grass, the yellow-oat-grass, and the brown-bent, are all called couch-grass; except that the latter is, in Sussex, called red robin.
2. = red rust n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1f(c)(i). Now historical and rare.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > rust disease or condition of having
rustOE
rustinga1398
canker?c1425
black rust1785
red gum1794
red rust1806
rust disease1816
red robin1821
red rag1841
crown rust1868
rustiness1882
stem rust1899
1821 Times 11 Sept. 3/5 The quality of the wheat is excessively various; in certain districts being very much affected by the mildew and red robin; in others not at all.
1850 Eclectic Rev. Oct. 495 Ask the farmer what he thinks of..the ‘rust’ and ‘red robin’, and there will be unfolded such a tale of woe, such a history of ruin and calamity.
1863 N. Brit. Rev. May 375 The leaf and chaff of the cereals are subject to a disease called rust, red-rag or red-robin (Uredo Rubigo).
1948 W. A. R. Dillon-Weston & R. E. Taylor Plant in Health & Dis. i. 2 On wheat the disease that turned the green corn rusty-red in colour was known as Rust or Red Robin.
3.
a. British regional. The European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
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1858 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 28 299 A small bird about the size of the red robin of England.
1882 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. II 225 Red-robin, the redbreast.
b. U.S. regional. The scarlet tanager, Piranga olivacea. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1890 Cent. Dict. at Robin1 Red robin, the scarlet tanager. (Local, U.S.).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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